Picasso – Printmaker A Perpetual Metamorphosis – Benador – Signed Limited Edition 2008 – Book

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Picasso Printmaker: A Perpetual Metamorphosis by Emmanuel Benador, numbered and signed hardcover edition, 2008, first printing, 339 pages in English, very good condition, QCC Art Gallery, City University of New York Collection, Myra and Sandy Kirschenbaum Collection. The book includes 129 color plates and hundreds of other graphic art illustrations.

Picasso: Master Engraver reveals why the artist is the greatest modern engraver since Rembrandt. This lavishly illustrated, 339-page volume, bound in silver-stamped brown felt, limited to 400 numbered and signed copies (including the signature of Faustino Quintanilla, director of the QCC Gallery, who wrote the foreword), explores the perpetual metamorphosis of printmaking in Picasso’s work. The author shows how Picasso reworked the same matrix in multiple states, invented new engraving, lithography, and linocut techniques, and transformed each plate, stone, or block into an original work irreducible to a simple reproduction.

With references to ancient Egypt, Giotto, Rembrandt, Degas, mythology, and personal life, and a detailed analysis of the Vollard Suite and major series of prints, this is an essential reference work for collectors, art historians, and lovers of original prints. Very good condition (slight fading of the silver stamp on the spine, fine dust on the binding, small coffee stain on the bottom edge). In English. New York, QCC Art Gallery / CUNY, 2008.

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